Toronto ACORN was founded in 2004, with the first organized group in Canada being formed in Weston / Mt Dennis after tenants took their slum-lord to task and won $250,000 in rent abatements. In the next ten years Toronto ACORN spread to every part of the city leading the fight and winning significant victories including raising the minimum wage; strengthening of the enforcement of apartment building standards; regulating the payday loan industry in Canada; and countless improvements in our neighbourhoods. In the next year we plan to fight for a new Residential Tenancy Act; to turn up the heat on predatory lenders that sell consolidation loans; to continue our fight to get the city of Toronto to license all landlords in the city; and to keep the pressure on to close the digital divide.
Toronto ACORN has local meetings in your neighbourhood and they are always open for new people to get involved. Join Toronto ACORN now!
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As a membership organization of low to moderate income people in Toronto, we find it extremely concerning - but not that surprising - that City Councillors representing our membership would be receiving financial gifts from one of the city's largest developers, the Greenwin-Verdiroc group.Workers call for $14 minimum wage at province-wide rallies
Rallies across the province call for better pay for poorest labourers
Crowd gathers at Dufferin Mall in city's west end seeking $14 an hour, up from $10.25
ACORN leader Eddy Lantz made a great presentation to the minimum wage panel about the need for a $14/h now minimum wage indexed to inflation.Weston ACORN members hit the streets petitioning for an indexed $14 minimum wage on Wednesday. Joining community and labour allies across the province, ACORN leaders ran a workshop on petitioning, then took to Weston Road to collect signatures.
Studio 12 News covers the $14 Now! Raise the Minimum Wage campaign.
NOW Magazine is holding their annual "Best of Toronto" reader poll - and Toronto ACORN has been nominated for Best Social Justice Group. Cast your vote for us now - let Toronto know that ACORN is the best group in the city!
Ontario’s Liberal government is appointing its long-awaited advisory panel on future increases to the minimum wage, which has been frozen at $10.25 the last three years. ACORN Canada members have been very involved in the coalition to raise the minimum wage in Ontario.
ACORN members will be at city hall on Thursday, April 18 to respond to a report on the city’s efforts over the last four years to crack down on slum landlords. The city has been quietly cutting inspection and enforcement programs designed in 2009 to help make sure tenants have safe, clean places to live.